PMI Project Management Office Certified Professional
Last Update Sep 26, 2025
Total Questions : 120
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As part of a merger between two companies, a PMO professional consultant is hired to conduct an organizational project management (OPM) maturity assessment. The consultant must evaluate how well each organization manages portfolios, programs, and projects, and how their processes align with organizational objectives.
What should the PMO professional consultant do first?
A well-established PMO unit is transforming from a traditional mix of controlling and directive functions to a customer-centric service model. The company culture is very hierarchical and the PMO professional faces some challenges ahead.
Which action should the PMO professional prioritize given the fundamental role of PMOs?
A PMO software tool was introduced 6 months ago to give PMO customers a comprehensive portfolio overview. The PMO professional recently received feedback indicating that customers are having difficulty navigating the tool and locating the necessary dashboards.
What should the PMO professional have done to prevent this issue?
A PMO has been working for the past 3 years and generates moderate perceived value for senior management. The company's senior management is concerned with the lack of direction and the reactive working style that the PMO follows.
How should the PMO professional work with senior management to increase the PMO's perceived value?
A PMO professional at a software company is in charge of ensuring effective use of methodology and integration between projects, monitoring progress, and identifying any deviations from the defined objectives.
Which responsibility describes the role of the PMO professional in this scenario?
A well-established PMO in the banking sector has decided to evolve the company's current project management practices as an element of its mandate to drive organizational project management maturity. However, the proposed changes were received with skepticism by the leadership team due to concerns about the impact on delivery throughput. The PMO professional was asked to address these concerns.
How should the PMO professional begin to address this issue?
A new portfolio management tool was introduced as the organization took on more projects. A few months later, the PMO professional observes that the organization is paying for more functionality than the project teams are using.
What should the PMO professional do first?
A PMO professional is leading a new PMO that aims to enhance organizational PMO maturity. When the PMO professional presents the roadmap to the board of directors, one of the executives says that no resources are available to work with the PMO.
What should the PMO professional do to avoid this situation in the future?
The PMO at a large company operating in a highly regulated industry is responsible for defining the project management processes for the company.
Which action should the PMO Professional take to ensure that the processes are adhered to?
A PMO professional is overseeing multiple customer care projects within a mid-sized company. The project sponsors, the chief of operations and the chief of customer success, have demanding schedules and are often occupied with other responsibilities.
How should the PMO professional ensure effective communication with these key stakeholders?
An experienced PMO professional is tasked with establishing guidelines and procedures to ensure effective decision-making and accountability throughout the project life cycle in a large-scale project management environment. The PMO professional needs to facilitate the establishment of structured guidelines and procedures to govern project activities and promote organizational alignment.
Which action should the PMO professional prioritize?
A pharmaceutical company operates an enterprise PMO (EPMO) that provides different types of services to several different PMO customers. The PMO leader wants to ensure that the service offerings of the EPMO are catering to the needs of its diverse PMO customers and delivering maximum value.
What should the PMO lead do?
In a global financial services company, the PMO recently implemented the "Provide Methodologies and Tools" service to ensure project teams use standardized approaches and tools for project management.
What key performance indicators (KPIs) should the PMO professional create to measure the performance of this specific service? (Choose 2)
A mature enterprise PMO unit in a large, diversified holding is now supporting a new business unit as a result of an organizational transformation. The director of this unit expresses doubts on the value and benefits of PMO support during the annual budgeting process.
How should the PMO professional articulate the PMO's value and get buy-in from this stakeholder for the PMO services?
A PMO professional overseeing multiple projects notices that project managers have varying levels of adherence to the project governance processes.
What should the PMO professional do first to ensure consistent governance across projects?
Due to a recent organizational transformation, the PMO has been excluded from strategic meetings and discussions. Although still responsible for program and project performance reporting, business representatives are now bypassing the PMO and directly approaching project managers for specific performance updates.
What actions should the PMO professional take to ensure the PMO remains valued by the organization?
An organization is forming a PMO. The team responsible for running the PMO is being recruited; it includes a mix of people from internal departments and external resources. One of the team members hired to work on the PMO has a lack of experience in certain services of the PMO that will be included in their assignment.
What should the PMO professional do?
A bank's PMO is responsible for project management governance and for supporting project managers across the organization. The bank is revising its strategic plan to respond to competitors' changes. The revised plan will affect the PMO governance structure and most of the bank's projects. The PMO professional has been tasked with preparing the organization for the strategic changes.
What should the PMO professional do?
After which event should a PMO professional expect the PMO mandate to be reviewed?
A PMO professional is responsible for a recently deployed project management methodology. A project manager who manages a significant portion of the portfolio refuses to follow the methodology, leaving gaps in the PMO reporting at the portfolio level. The project manager views the prescribed processes as rigid, time-consuming, and as adding no value.
How should the PMO professional respond?
A newly hired PMO professional is tasked with improving the executives' level of satisfaction with the PMO's performance. The PMO was established last year and has not been very successful in attending to the needs of the PMO customers.
Which two actions should the PMO professional take to address this issue? (Choose 2)
A PMO professional leading a global PMO wants to ensure that the PMO's services continue to evolve and deliver value to customers.
Which approach best supports the PMO professional in achieving this goal?
There have been numerous complaints about the performance of one of the project managers.
How should the PMO professional address this issue?
In a pharmaceutical company, several scope changes were requested on major strategic initiatives. After analysis, it seems that several project managers did not apply a proper stakeholder assessment during the preparation of the projects.
What should the PMO professional do first to address this issue?
A food industry company recently acquired a new company. To ensure a quick integration, several project managers are assigned to combine the product portfolios. The PMO for the integration program was informed by the project managers that they encountered a regulatory compliance change regarding several products manufactured by the acquired company. This is having a significant impact on the ongoing product portfolio integration.
Which actions should the PMO professional take to support the quick adaptation to these changes in the future?
A PMO professional must create a strategic presentation for stakeholders to provide visibility on the company's projects.
Which two types of information should the PMO professional present to the stakeholders? (Choose 2)
A PMO professional uses a project portfolio performance dashboard designed using PMO standard metrics. The PMO professional discovers that the lab team is using its own metrics. The lab team's project manager explains that the PMO standard metrics are not meaningful to their team.
How should the PMO professional ensure that the PMO standard metrics are captured, while allowing flexibility for the lab team?
A company decided to expand its PMO services to include strategic alignment and to participate in strategic planning. The company tasked a PMO professional with developing a framework to ensure the new services are properly planned, implemented, and governed.
Which action should the PMO professional take to develop the requested framework?
A new PMO has been started in a medium-sized retail company that has several concurrently running strategic projects. A team of project managers with no PMO experience has been assigned to the new PMO.
Which two actions should the PMO professional take to help the project managers prepare for their roles? (Choose 2)
During the last portfolio steering meeting, business representatives complained about the sudden unavailability of some critical resources for a project with very high visibility and importance. The PMO leader was not informed of this risk by the project manager.
Which action should the PMO leader take to avoid similar situations in the future?
A PMO professional is mentoring a project manager who is overseeing a project critical to the organization's strategic goals. The project manager has encountered resistance from a key stakeholder who believes the project's direction might jeopardize their department's interests. Despite written communication, the stakeholder remains concerned.
What should the PMO professional advise the project manager to do?
Historically, an organization's PMO has been considered as a department that employs project managers, with its role linked to managing only internal projects. With a change in PMO leadership, the new PMO manager decides to elevate the role of the PMO and make it a strategic partner.
Which actions should the PMO manager take to achieve this goal?
A PMO professional is acting as the PMO leader temporarily in a well-established and mature PMO unit. In this role, a PMO professional receives an escalation from the portfolio manager that a new business stakeholder's activity is overlapping with key portfolio management functions.
What should the PMO professional do to resolve this issue?
A manufacturing company is in the process of establishing its PMO, and the PMO professional leading it recognizes that securing executive sponsorship and ongoing support is crucial for the PMO's success and mandate.
How should the PMO professional effectively secure and maintain executive sponsorship for the PMO?
In recent months, a company was contracted to deliver several projects requiring specialist technical resources. Several clients have begun to complain about the limited availability of the specialist technical resources, which will impact their project timelines.
What should the PMO professional do to help solve the problem?
A PMO professional is providing strategic guidance to executives and has been tasked with advising the executives on various aspects of the organization's projects to drive success.
Which two tasks are within the scope of the advisory role for a PMO professional? (Choose 2)
TESTED 26 Sep 2025
